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Dahlberg, Leif, ProfessorORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-1207-124X
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Dahlberg, L. (2026). Att förlika sig med klimatkrisen. In: Erik Björling, Merima Bruncevic, Gustav Stenseke Arup, Åsa Ågren (Ed.), Festskrift till Håkan Gustafsson: (pp. 79-100). Uppsala: Iustus förlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Att förlika sig med klimatkrisen
2026 (Swedish)In: Festskrift till Håkan Gustafsson / [ed] Erik Björling, Merima Bruncevic, Gustav Stenseke Arup, Åsa Ågren, Uppsala: Iustus förlag, 2026, p. 79-100Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Iustus förlag, 2026
Keywords
Klimatkrisen, Global uppvärmning, Aktivism, Repression
National Category
Law Rhetoric General Literature Studies Cultural Studies Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Arts Media and Communication Studies Climate Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-369081 (URN)
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Part of ISBN 978-91-7737-444-2

Kapitlet gavs ursprungligen som plenarföreläsning på konferensen Speculation(s), Critical Legal Conference 2024, i Lund, 16-18 september, 2024, med titeln ”Coming to terms with the climate crisis. Repression of climate activism in law courts in the UK and Sweden”.  

QC 20260416

Available from: 2026-04-16 Created: 2026-04-16 Last updated: 2026-04-16Bibliographically approved
Dahlberg, L. (2026). “But Auschwitz was not hell, it was a German concentration camp.”: On remembering and representing Auschwitz in Martin Walser and Peter Weiss. Pólemos, 20(1), 171-193
Open this publication in new window or tab >>“But Auschwitz was not hell, it was a German concentration camp.”: On remembering and representing Auschwitz in Martin Walser and Peter Weiss
2026 (English)In: Pólemos, ISSN 2036-4601, Vol. 20, no 1, p. 171-193Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

 In the spring 1964, while taking part in the rehearsals of his play Marat/Sade (1964) at the Schiller-Theater in Berlin, Peter Weiss attended several sessions of the so-called Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt (1963–1965). In the trial, 22 former functionaries in the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camps were tried for murder and accessory to murder. The experience of attending the hearings in Frankfurt and closely following the media reports of the trial would have a major impact on his work, most concretely in his play The Investigation (Die Ermittlung, 1965), which restaged the trial in the form of documentary drama. Many other writers were strongly affected by the trial, among them was Martin Walser, who wrote an essay entitled “Our Auschwitz” (“Unser Auschwitz”, 1965), critical of how the focus on individual criminal acts produced a mystification obscuring “the real Auschwitz”. He was also critical of the media reporting of the trial, in which the defendants were often described as “devils” and “beasts of prey” and where Auschwitz was described as “hell” and where references to Dante’s Inferno were common. For Walser, this prevented contemporary Germans from understanding and accepting the realities of the camps and the Nazi extermination programme. My essay describes how Walser’s critique of the Auschwitz trial and the media representation appears to interact – directly or indirectly – with the development of Weiss’s dramatic representation of the trial.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2026
Keywords
Auschwitz, Frankfurt Auschwitz trial, Martin Walser, Peter Weiss, Die Ermittlung, The Investigation
National Category
General Literature Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-367543 (URN)10.1515/pol-2026-2013 (DOI)
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QC 20260410

Available from: 2026-04-10 Created: 2026-04-10 Last updated: 2026-04-10Bibliographically approved
Flodin, V., Peters, A.-K., Lundegård, I., Österlind, E., Huitric, M. & Dahlberg, L. (2026). Undervisning för hållbara framtider: skapa rörelse för förändring. Stockholm University
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Undervisning för hållbara framtider: skapa rörelse för förändring
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2026 (Swedish)Report (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm University, 2026. p. 40
Series
Rapporter om undervisning och lärande i högre utbildning, E-ISSN 2003-1688 ; 2026:1
Keywords
lärande för hållbar utveckling, högskoledidaktik, transformativt lärande
National Category
Educational Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-385196 (URN)
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QC 20260709

Available from: 2026-07-07 Created: 2026-07-07 Last updated: 2026-07-09Bibliographically approved
Dahlberg, L. & Hedman, A. (2025). Pedagogic Role-Play for Engaging with Ethics and Sustainability. In: Stefanie Giebert and Eva Göksel (Ed.), Dramapädagogik-Tage 2022/Drama in Education Days 2022: Conference Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Performative Language Teaching and Learning (pp. 78-97). Uppsala: Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Pedagogic Role-Play for Engaging with Ethics and Sustainability
2025 (English)In: Dramapädagogik-Tage 2022/Drama in Education Days 2022: Conference Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Performative Language Teaching and Learning / [ed] Stefanie Giebert and Eva Göksel, Uppsala: Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation , 2025, p. 78-97Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Learning to think and act in sustainable ways is largely a question of language skills, i.e., to understand the meaning of sustainability and related terms and to understand the grammar — language game — of sustainability. To help university students acquire these skills, we developed two role-play exercises for engaging with issues of ethics and sustainability. In one exercise, students in a university course on theory and methodology in interactive media technology prepared for the exercise by reading three short texts on ethical theories, and a scenario description. In the role-play exercise, students took on various roles to enact the scenario. In the second exercise, students in a course on intercultural communication were tasked to analyse and discuss the relevance of the United Nations 17 Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) for the course content. In the role play, the students had to summarise the discussions and advocate for their views. In both role-play exercises, students took on various roles to enact the scenario. Finally, there were debriefing sessions. Both courses were taught at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, during the academic year 2021-2022. In the paper, we summarise our findings, including strengths and weaknesses of role-play as a teaching method. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, 2025
Keywords
Pedagogic role-play; Ethics; Intercultural communication
National Category
Ethics Media and Communication Studies Educational Sciences Pedagogy Other Engineering and Technologies Cultural Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-342676 (URN)
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QC 20250210

Available from: 2025-02-08 Created: 2025-02-08 Last updated: 2025-02-18Bibliographically approved
Dahlberg, L. (2025). Role Play: Playing with power (1ed.). In: Tony Wall, Eva Österlind and Eva Hallgren (Ed.), Sustainability Teaching for Impact: How to Inspire and Engage Students Using Drama (pp. 77-83). London: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Role Play: Playing with power
2025 (English)In: Sustainability Teaching for Impact: How to Inspire and Engage Students Using Drama / [ed] Tony Wall, Eva Österlind and Eva Hallgren, London: Routledge, 2025, 1, p. 77-83Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter outlines the use of pedagogic role play to explore power dynamics in the context of intercultural communication. It integrates theoretical ideas and tools relevant to intercultural communication, intercultural communication competence, power and power distance, alongside interactive role-play processes. This chapter explains how these processes – applied to interpersonal conflict for example – not only explore personal and collective meaning of the theoretical ideas and tools as applied to sustainability issues, but also how students can develop their own action in relation to those issues through interruption as an agentic device for learning.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Routledge, 2025 Edition: 1
Keywords
Pedagogic role play, Intercultural communication
National Category
Educational Sciences Media and Communication Studies Social Anthropology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-356342 (URN)10.4324/9781003496359-13 (DOI)2-s2.0-85217423525 (Scopus ID)
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Part of ISBN 9781032769301

QC 20250127

Available from: 2025-01-23 Created: 2025-01-23 Last updated: 2025-02-26Bibliographically approved
Dahlberg, L. (2024). “För ingen älskar budbäraren som kommer med dåliga nyheter”. Dala-Demokraten (11 januari)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>“För ingen älskar budbäraren som kommer med dåliga nyheter”
2024 (Swedish)In: Dala-Demokraten, ISSN 1103-9183, no 11 januariArticle in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Abstract [sv]

“För ingen älskar budbäraren som kommer med dåliga nyheter” 

Denna versrad kommer från Sofokles tragedi Antigone, uttalad av en budbärare. Men kanske borde man säga budbäraren, för i antik grekisk teater är budbäraren ofta en central figur som har en viktig roll att spela i den dramatiska handlingen. Det är ofta en underordnad person, som en väktare eller en herde, vars uppgift är att ge en fullständig och sanningsenlig redogörelse för vad som har hänt utanför scenen. I Sofokles Antigone beskriver budbäraren hur någon har brutit mot Kreons, Thebes härskare, förbud att begrava Polyneikes, Oidipus son och Antigones bror. I dramat gör de ”dåliga nyheterna” Kreon rasande och han hotar att straffa budbäraren om han inte hittar gärningsmannen. 

Vetenskapen varnade oss redan i slutet av 1970-talet för att den omfattande användningen av fossil energi skulle leda till global uppvärmning, vilket i sin tur skulle orsaka en förändring av klimatet på ett sätt som radikalt förändrar livsvillkoren på planeten. Sedan dess har den vetenskapliga kunskapen vuxit om effekterna av en ökad koncentration av växthusgaser i atmosfären. I dag råder det inget tvivel om att klimatkrisen är ett hot mot civilisationens överlevnad. Allra värst drabbade är fattiga samhällen som i mycket liten utsträckning bidragit till utsläppen av växthusgaser.

Vetenskapssamfundet har inte bara mobiliserats – och mobiliserat sig – för att producera kunskap om antropogen klimatförändring, den har också tagit på sig att kommunicera denna kunskap till politiker och beslutsfattare. Kanske trodde vetenskapssamfundet att det skulle räcka med att producera vetenskaplig kunskap och att ge en sanningsenlig redogörelse av denna kunskap för att få världens politiker och makthavare att agera. Det var i så fall naivt. Det politiska och ekonomiska ledarskapet har i bästa fall givit en läpparnas bekännelsetill de massiva vetenskapliga bevisen på att det är nödvändigt att drastiskt minska användningen av fossila bränslen och inom en snar framtid helt fasa ut dom. 

Verkligheten är att det har skett en ständigt ökande produktion och användning av fossila bränslen. Det har genererats mer koldioxid från förbränning av fossila bränslen efter 1990, det år som FN:s klimatpanel IPCC presenterade sin första rapport, än från när industrialiseringen startade på 1800-talet fram till 1990. Men vetenskapssamfundet har inte bara funnit att deras budskap ignoreras, utan också att såväl klimatforskare som de vetenskapliga bevisen ifrågasätts av lobbyister från fossilindustrin och av folkvalda politiker. Antalet angrepp påenskilda forskare och vetenskapliga institutioner som kommunicerar etablerad kunskap om klimatförändring är otaliga.

Det är mot bakgrund av detta ofantliga – obegripliga – svek från politiker och andra makthavare, som man ska förstå det upprop till uppror som den då nybildade aktivist-gruppen Extinction Rebellion (XR) deklarerade utanför det brittiska parlament i oktober 2018:

"Vi deklarerar härmed att det sociala kontraktets band är ogiltiga och av intet värde, att regeringen har gjort dessa ogiltiga genom sin fortsatta underlåtenhet att agera på ett ansvarsfullt sätt. Vi uppmanar varje principfast och fredlig medborgare att göra uppror med oss."

Det slags uppror som XR uppmanar till är helt fredligt, alltså ingen stormning av riksdagshus eller angrepp på politiker. Den övergripande strategin är att skapa uppmärksamhet om klimatfrågan genom fredliga demonstrationer och civil olydnad. Precis som i samband med kvinnors kamp för rösträtt runtom i Europa och medborgarrättsrörelsen i USA, så används civil olydnad som ett medel för att kräva att etablerade demokratiska och rättsliga principer omsätts i praktiken. I det ena fallet deklarationer om alla människors lika värde, i det andra enhållbar utveckling som leder till en god miljö för nuvarande och kommande generationer. 

XR har tre krav: Tala klarspråk om klimatkrisen; Agera nu (inte 2030, 2035 eller 2045); Verka för en deltagande och inkluderande demokrati, rättvis omställning och transparens. De tre kraven kan tyckas ganska självklara i en liberal demokrati som hyllar förnuft och vetenskap. Men precis som när suffragetter och medborgarrättsaktivister krävde vad somborde vara en självklarhet i ett demokratiskt samhälle, så möts fredliga klimataktivister av en tilltagande repression från ordningsmakt och rättsväsende, och populistiska politiker utmålar dem som ett ”hot” – oklart mot vad. Lika litet som att ignorera eller misstänklig-göra klimatvetenskapen är en framgångsrik strategi för att lösa klimatkrisen, så är det inte meningsfyllt att kriminalisera fredliga aktivister som kämpar för en god miljö för nuvarande och kommande generationer. Aktivister kommer inte att sluta protestera mot politikernas klimatsvek för att man utdömer hårdare straff för fredliga protester. Tvärtom, i takt med att klimatkrisens effekter blir alltmer påtagliga kommer protesterna att tillta

Keywords
Extinction Rebellion, klimataktivism, civil olydnad
National Category
Media and Communication Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-342098 (URN)
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QC 20240115

Available from: 2024-01-11 Created: 2024-01-11 Last updated: 2025-09-23Bibliographically approved
Dahlberg, L. (2024). "Nyhetsmedier tycks föredra att rapportera från aktioner där det görs gripanden". Folket i Bild / Kulturfront (1), 15-15
Open this publication in new window or tab >>"Nyhetsmedier tycks föredra att rapportera från aktioner där det görs gripanden"
2024 (Swedish)In: Folket i Bild / Kulturfront, ISSN 1401-1522, no 1, p. 1p. 15-15Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Folket i Bild / Kulturfront, 2024. p. 1
Keywords
Extinction Rebellion, klimataktivism, civil olydnad
National Category
Media and Communication Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-342518 (URN)
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QC 20240208

Available from: 2024-01-31 Created: 2024-01-31 Last updated: 2025-02-11Bibliographically approved
Dahlberg, L. (2024). This is not a crisis: The Rhetorical Construction of An Epistemic and Ideological Crisis (Sweden) (1ed.). In: Silvia Pellicer-Ortín; Julia Kuznetski; Chiara Battisti (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Literatures and Crisis: (pp. 203-210). Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>This is not a crisis: The Rhetorical Construction of An Epistemic and Ideological Crisis (Sweden)
2024 (English)In: The Routledge Companion to Literatures and Crisis / [ed] Silvia Pellicer-Ortín; Julia Kuznetski; Chiara Battisti, Routledge, 2024, 1, p. 203-210Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter discusses the rhetorical construction of a crisis in Alva and Gunnar Myrdals’ book Crisis in the population question (1934). The purpose of the chapter is to situate the book in its historical and sociopolitical context in Sweden, to define what kind of crisis is at play and the role of this crisis in the argumentation. In the book, there is a double entendre in the term crisis, connoting both possible danger and opportunity for social and political change. Although the Myrdals’ book is a socio-economic study as well as a political treatise, the rhetorical construction of crisis makes use of literary devices, in particular by moving between different semantic registers. In this sense, the term crisis in itself becomes critical for determining the crisis of the population question.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2024 Edition: 1
Keywords
Rhetorical construction of crisis; Alva & Gunnar Myrdal, Crisis in the Population Question (Kris i befolkningfrågan, 1934)
National Category
Cultural Studies History of Science and Ideas Specific Literatures
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-356341 (URN)10.4324/9781003362883-25 (DOI)2-s2.0-85208867681 (Scopus ID)
Note

Part of ISBN 9781032424644

QC 20250717

Available from: 2024-11-14 Created: 2024-11-14 Last updated: 2025-07-17Bibliographically approved
Dahlberg, L. (2023). ”Hope Dies – Action Begins”: Civil olydnad och fredlig direkt aktion inom svensk klimataktivism – exemplet Extinction Rebellion. K & K: kultur og klasse : kritik og kulturanalyse, 2023(134-135), 129-157
Open this publication in new window or tab >>”Hope Dies – Action Begins”: Civil olydnad och fredlig direkt aktion inom svensk klimataktivism – exemplet Extinction Rebellion
2023 (Swedish)In: K & K: kultur og klasse : kritik og kulturanalyse, ISSN 0905-6998, E-ISSN 2246-2589, Vol. 2023, no 134-135, p. 129-157Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The article explores the use of civil disobedience and non-violent direct action (NVDA) as a strategy and method in climate activism in Sweden, with a particular focus on the group Extinction Rebellion (XR). The article describes and analyzes a number of XR actions carried out in 2019-2022, with a focus on meaning-making practices. The uses of civil disobedience and NVDA are presented within a historical, cultural and social context; the question of the role and legitimacy of civil disobedience in democratic societies is discussed. 

XR has civil disobedience and NVDA as central strategy and in this way the group has put these protest methods in focus, and after each major action there is a need to both explain and justify their use. This is more noticeable in a Swedish cultural context that is characterized by consensus and a stigmatization of disobedience. This relationship in turn affects the planning and execution of disobedient and disruptive protest actions in Sweden. The article explores how activists in XR Sweden relate to this specific cultural context and how they try to influence it; hence XR Sweden works not only to influence those in power and public opinion regarding the climate crisis, but also on the possibilities and forms of civil political protests. 

The article is based on participant observation. These began in the spring of 2019 and are still ongoing. The study has an anthropological perspective, with an emphasis on semiotics and hermeneutics. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Aarhus: , 2023
Keywords
Extinction Rebellion, Klimataktivism, Civil olydnad, Icke-våldsam direkt aktion
National Category
Cultural Studies Other Legal Research Criminology Social Anthropology Media and Communication Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-324257 (URN)
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QC 20230510

Available from: 2023-05-02 Created: 2023-05-02 Last updated: 2025-03-27Bibliographically approved
Dahlberg, L. (2023). "Look at the happy bear here!": The use of artivism in Extinction Rebellion Sweden. Journal of Resistance Studies, 9(2), 40-77
Open this publication in new window or tab >>"Look at the happy bear here!": The use of artivism in Extinction Rebellion Sweden
2023 (English)In: Journal of Resistance Studies, ISSN 2001-9947, Vol. 9, no 2, p. 40-77Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The article describes and analyses how the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion (XR) Sweden makes use of art as part of nonviolent direct actions, a form of action which often is referred to as artivism. The article is based on direct observations of actions, documented online chats, interviews with participants, and content analysis of films, photographs and social media posts. The artivist actions were performed in Stockholm in 2020-2022. The interviews were made in the autumn 2022. The first part of the article is descriptive, presenting a series of artivist actions performed by the XR group. There is also a critical and historical discussion of politically engaged art and the use of art in activism. The second part of the article consists of a thematic analysis of the interview material. The article argues that artivism is import- ant both as a means of communication and for the internal culture in the activist group. As a form of meaning-making, artistic creation challenges the ready-made framing of political issues. The artivist performance is a form of place-making, temporarily transforming the meaning of public space, set- ting the stage for a carnivalesque where climate activists can appear as Fossil Fuel Industry executives, openly revealing disinformation and Greenwashing campaigns. Artivist action constitutes a form of aesthetics of resistance, chal- lenging hegemonic ideological representation. Many of the artivist actions performed by the XR group were satirical, where humour plays an important part. Humour is also important in other ways, to keep up the spirit and en- gagement of the activists, and to defuse possible tension with bystanders and representatives of law enforcement. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Irene Publishers, 2023
Keywords
Artivism, Extinction Rebellion, Climate activism
National Category
Cultural Studies Performing Art Studies Media and Communication Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-338700 (URN)
Note

QC 20240125

Available from: 2024-01-25 Created: 2024-01-25 Last updated: 2025-06-05Bibliographically approved
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